Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 1432:ee0e4f2f4bdb
Fiddle with the downloads/binaries layout yet again, and update README for it.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:21:48 -0500 |
parents | a3fb55d2990a |
children | 7e0747a665ab |
files | www/downloads/binaries/README |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/downloads/binaries/README Tue Aug 23 08:21:15 2011 -0500 +++ b/www/downloads/binaries/README Tue Aug 23 08:21:48 2011 -0500 @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ -The downloads/binaries directory contains prebuilt binary images, created by -running sources/more/buildall.sh in the most recent Aboriginal Linux source -tarball. The source packages for these binaries are mirrored at -"http://landley.net/aboriginal/mirror". +These binary images were created by running more/buildall.sh in the most recent +Aboriginal Linux source tarball, available at: + + http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads + +The source packages for these binaries are mirrored at: + + http://landley.net/aboriginal/mirror + +The file MANIFEST lists the current package versions. Previous versions are +available under the "old" directory. + +============================================================================== Two types of tarballs are available at the top level of this directory: @@ -63,7 +72,7 @@ ============================================================================== -Several other types of tarballs are available in the "extras" subdirectory: +The same data is repackaged in several formats under the "root-filesystems" dir: simple-root-filesystem-$ARCH.tar.bz2 @@ -91,16 +100,24 @@ filesystem. This is what the system images use for their minimal native development environment root filesystem. +============================================================================== + +Several additional useful native binaries are available in the "extras" dir: + busybox-$ARCH - This is a prebuilt static busybox binary for the given target, implementing - numerous standard command line utilities. + This is a static busybox binary for the given target, implementing + numerous standard command line utilities. Run ./busybox-$ARCH to see + the list of supported commands. It provides the default configuration + ("make defconfig") of busybox. To use, copy it to a target system (perhaps via wget), set the executable - bit, and (optionally) create the appropriate symlinks to it. + bit, and (optionally) create the appropriate symlinks to it: - Run ./busybox-$ARCH to see the list of supported commands. It provides - the default configuration ("make defconfig") of busybox. + for i in $(busybox --list); do ln -s busybox $i; done + + (You don't need to install busybox into Aboriginal Linux filesystems, + it's already there in simple-root-filesystem and its derivatives.) dropbearmulti-$ARCH